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What It’s Like to Get a National Security Letter, from one of the only people in the country able to talk about it: “Again, they advised me to not even ask my board whether or not I can do this. So this is, in some sense, really putting myself at risk personally. Here I am, trying to make a decision as to whether or not we should sue the United States government over a secret demand for information, on my own.”

Buffy vs. Edward Remix Unfairly Removed by Lionsgate: It’s fair use. Everyone agrees it’s fair use. Lionsgate even agreed it was fair use . . . initially. But they’ve still managed to make this remix artist’s life an exhausting mash of court cases. This is a very good example of how broken copyright law is in the United States.